Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a cloudy Saturday with a very high chance of showers and a max of 18 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Subscriber: The daughter Pitasoni Ulavalu never met began to cry on Friday as a court heard about the heartbreak of her mother having to raise her as a single parent.
Subscriber: Across the next seven days 180 Canberra properties will go under the hammer, the most since property data firm CoreLogic began its reporting.
Analysis: There is a logic to Scott Morrison waiting until the last moment to head to the polls. Australia will be a very different place by May, writes Finn McHugh.
Subscriber | Opinion: We still don't know which states had the best strategies, and why they worked or failed. We need a review to ensure we learn from the COVID crisis, writes Jack Waterford.
The capital will again be without its annual multicultural festive food and arts market, with authorities blaming the territory's COVID-19 lockdown for disrupting its planning time.
The federal government's net zero plan bets the nation will find 15 per cent of its emission reductions through unknown, future technology breakthroughs. Experts say Australia will need to spend vastly more on R&D if that's the case.
Subscriber | Analysis: Tim Paine was supposed to be our cleanskin captain. But Paine has had a skeleton in his closet and Cricket Australia have known about it.
